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(No Model.)

Patented July 15, 1884.

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' UNITED. STATES PATE T OFFICE.

JOHN DAY, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CURTAIN-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,969, dated July 15,1884-.

' Application filed April 14, 1884. (No model.)

I .To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN DAY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York, have invented an Improvement in Ourtain-Rings, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Curtain-rings have been made of sheet metal cut out in the form of aring, and bent up into a U-shape'sectionally, and then closed down, sothat the ring is hollow and circular, or nearly so, in its sectionalform. A suspending ring or eye has also been used with these sheet metalrings; but it has be n attached by boring a hole through the sh et-metalring, and passing the wire of the suspending ring or eye through thesame and riveting up the end.- This is a difficult operation, and theriveted end, projecting inside the ring, is liable to scratch or injurethe curtain-pole upon which the ring slides.

My invention relates to the combination, with the hollow sheet-metalcurtain-ring, of a suspending-eye or curtaidfastening havingthe headinside the hollow ring, so that it is out of sight, and does notinterfere with or injure the, curtain-pole, and the appearance of thering is improved.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the ring complete. Fig. 2is a section of the same before the U-shaped ring is closed. Fig. 3 isan elevation of the Ushaped ring. Fig. 4 is-a section of the ring asready for use. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 show different suspending eyes orloops that may be used with this ring.

The sheet metal is cut out as a fiat ringshaped blank, and it is pressedup by dies into a U shape sectionally, as seen in Fig. 2, and there is ahole or opening made at one side for the reception of the suspending eyeor ring 1;, the stem of which passes through the said hole andterminates as a head, 0, within the hollow ring.

The suspending eyeor ring may be conthe lower part passed through thehole or opening in the ring, after which the eye may be opened into anoval or circular form; or an eye of wire may be used, as seen in Fig. 8,the head being formed by spreading the ends of the wire above the stem.The sheet metal of the ring is now closed, so as to produce ahol-- lowor tubular ring, and-the surface is polished or finished in any desiredmanner.

I do not claim a tubular curtain-ring in which the suspending device isapplied where the ends of the tube are brought together, as the same hasbefore been made.

I claim as my invention The tubular curtain-ring formed from a ringshaped blank of sheet metal, having a hole through the metal at one sideof the tube, and a suspending ring or eye, with a shank passing throughthe hole, and a head within the tubular ring, substantially asspecified.

' Signed by me this 10th day of April, A. D. 1884. K

. JOHN DAY. \Vitnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WVILLIAM G. Morr.

